Azeroth Shadow Trail

   Chapter 637 190. Can you do it? Shall I come?

   "The number of carrier-based aircraft is still too small. A round of bombing by 60 bombers can't blow up a few ships at all! This is still a 'fixed target', and the hit rate of a moving target will only be worse.

   Sure enough, whether the high-altitude bomb can hit or not depends on fate.

   Still have to get Fusrag to recruit more goblin tinkers to get the dive bombers out. The three decks of the Alpaca and Wharton could also be improved.

   Thirty gyrocopters on a ship of that size would be a waste. "

   On the bow of the Nagfar, which was traveling at high speed and riding the wind and waves, Blake grabbed a Seiko telescope and looked at the "hot" battlefield in the distance.

   He said regretfully to First Officer Sefir beside him:

"Write down what I just said, and then when we get a new ship, we will allocate more funds to the goblins for research. But it doesn't have to be too much. As long as we survive this period of time, we will soon be able to usher in one." Firepower tech tree 'opportunity to upgrade."

   "This is already pretty good."

   Compared to Black's greed and dissatisfaction, Sefir would happily hold his notebook and say to the captain:

   "Old Garni's Microraptor just sent the news that Fuslager's bomber formation has sunk four ships in the first round of bombing, and Maim's commando has also controlled two ships with broken masts.

   As long as the powerful Sister Mercy joins the battlefield, there will definitely be more gains. I've read biographies of some pirates before, and this kind of victory is already a "big victory" worthy of boasting.

   We are facing a national navy after all.

   Even if the war ends here, the reputation of the undead pirate will soon spread across the endless sea. "

   "Poor Sefir, your ambitions are so small."

  Black pouted and said:

   "What I want is not a mere 'big victory', what I want is to defeat the sea power of Gilneas with one blow, and take the sea of ​​Tol Barad and the Palatine Sea completely.

   I finally fought a battle, and now I have the advantage. How can I not pursue the victory? "

   "Black! Those Gilnean ships are going!"

   This will change to the stupid warrior Fenna on the observation deck, holding the telescope, admiring the "explosion art" of the undead pirate bomber group, and shouting towards the bottom:

   "Look! They sacrificed some boats that couldn't run, and the rest were turning!"

   "Stupid!"

   The smelly pirate immediately corrected:

   "They are not running, they are planning to regroup! Seize the shelling position to suppress the counterattacking pirate ships. The Gilnean people's fighting spirit is good, but the naval tactics are too rigid.

   Blind pursuit of fire suppression, at first glance, is a bad problem with the Kul Tiras fleet! But the problem is that they also don't have the firepower projection capability of the Kurdish navy.

  The good ones are not learned, the net ones are bad ones!

  If Dalene was here.

   If he were facing this situation, he would definitely abandon the artillery fire, concentrate his active forces and choose to take over the side battle, and destroy my ability to manipulate the tide in my hands.

   Then use the strict discipline of the navy to defeat the pirates who rushed up, and through a hearty hand-to-hand battle, reinfuse the soldiers with morale and confidence.

   Gilneas foolishly gave up his numerical advantage.

   tsk tsk

  In the absence of tide sages to stabilize the battle situation, they thought they could run, such an enemy is my favorite, it is really cute and simple. "

   Black sneered, stretched out his hand and placed it on the Tide Stone again, he narrowed his eyes and looked at the Gilneas battleships that were trying to escape from the bombing area and regrouped in the distance.

   He said softly:

   "I still have four 'Great Tides' and four 'Lightning Storms' to play with you, the Gilneas fleet is doomed today, and this is the price you pay for provoking undead pirates!

   Well, after today, the sea will sing my name.

   I don't know what nickname my colleagues will give me? Why don't you just call it the 'Lion of the Palatine'! Well, 'Sea Wolf of Khaz Modan' is not bad either. "

   "The nicknames are given by others!"

  Sefir rolled his eyes and complained:

   "How can I call myself a nickname? I wanted to call myself the "Blade of Time" when I was young, but I was laughed at by Chromie for ten years.

  Oh, I don't know if Chromie is doing well now?

  I miss her. "

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   "Idiot!"

   On the stern of the flagship "Northern Lord" of the Gilneas Fleet Reserve, which is still several nautical miles away from the battlefield, the angry roar of the Alliance Admiral is echoing:

   "Why are you trying to distance yourself and regroup? Do you just shoot from a distance? A bunch of cowards!

   At this time, it is time to concentrate on the advantages of the fleet and take the initiative to rush up to fight the pirates!

   Once your men are mixed with theirs, those pirates can no longer use tidal magic to affect your fleet. You actually gave up the good chance of the Jedi counterattack, your frontline commander should really be pulled to hang the mast! "

   Dai Lin can no longer pretend to be calm at this meeting.

   Although he was on a foreign fleet not under his command, he was only a "temporary advisor".

   But now this sea battle, which was originally a great advantage, has turned into such a cowardly appearance, which makes the highly professional admiral really unable to bear it.

   Through the magic mirror overlooking the battlefield created by the tide sage with the power of the ocean, he can completely grasp the trend of the war from a long distance.

   If the previous great tides and lightning storms were accidents beyond human intervention, they could be accepted.

   Then, when the storm subsided and faced the bomber formation of the undead pirates, the stupid response of the Gilneas fleet made Dalene feel that she was humiliating her IQ at a glance.

   Dai Lin angrily smashed the telescopic glass in her hand on the table while watching this "eating operation".

   Amid the chilling silence of the Gilnean staff, Daelin, who had lost her temper, turned her head to look at Darius, the dignified northern lord behind her, and said angrily:

   "What else to see? Your front-line fleet is finished, they just need to launch another big tide to trap your regrouped fleet again.

   Those returning goblin rotors will bring a second and third wave of bombardment.

   Your griffon knights have been wiped out, old-fashioned naval guns can't deal with agile gyroplanes, you have no way to counterattack except passive beating.

   But. To be honest, you don't complain about losing. "

   Dai Lin is Dai Lin after all. While others were still worried about the bad battle ahead, the admiral had already thought about deeper questions.

   He looked at the magic mirror that reflected the battlefield in front of him, reached out and stroked the sailor-style beard on his chin, and said thoughtfully:

   "This is the first time I've seen such a naval battle tactic.

   may have been inspired by the orc manipulating the red dragon's attack. After seizing air supremacy, use saturation bombing to destroy opponents who are unable to counterattack.

  In a large-scale war, once air supremacy is seized, such a tactic is indeed more ruthless and effective than the firepower advantage currently pursued by Kul Tiras when it is used to destroy the opponent's living strength.

   Might be worth looking into.

  Unfortunately, such a wonderful tactic was summed up by a pirate chief, and his bombing tactics are obviously still in the process of being formed and groping, and a complete combat system has not yet been formed.

   He lacked the **** strength for the two large ships as carrier-based aircraft platforms, and the overall firepower was too weak, and a round of bombing would be difficult to obtain results under normal circumstances.

  Tsk, fortunately I saw it in advance.

  Otherwise, if the Kul Tiras navy suddenly faced this tactic in the future, it might also suffer. "

   said, Dai Lin instructed the great knight Cyrus behind him:

   "Retain today's magical images and bring them back to Kul Tiras to show the fleet captains and commanders above the third level, I need each of them to issue a feasibility report for a new tactical study!

   In addition, remember to remind me when you go back, go to the tech city Gnomeregan in the name of the Admiralty and recruit a group of gnome engineers. I will personally write to the Council of Artisans and ask for their help. "

   Admiral stared at the goblin rotorcraft flying with bombs in the magic image, and he said coldly:

   "The Kul Tiras Navy needs a more efficient engineering bomber, and perhaps the gnome engineers of Gnomeregan will surprise us.

   Such a core and effective war technology, our fleet must master it at the fastest speed!

  Remember the style of this troll transport ship, and notify Stormsong Family and Ashvane Family to jointly imitate and improve it when I go back. I want to see its prototype within three months.

  If it proves to be really useful, in this fleet refit plan, we will build a few more ships like this.”

   Dai Lin chuckled and said:

   "The arrears of war indemnity in Booty Bay was just used to build the Fifth Fleet of Kul Tiras. Perhaps this new fleet can try a new style of war."

   These words made the northern lord of Gilneas, beside Daelin, feel anxious, but also rose up with an undisguised envy.

   This is the strength of Kul Tiras.

  As an admiral, Daelin has almost unlimited resources to use in pursuit of maritime supremacy, and the entire Kul Tiras high-level will support him unconditionally.

   On the other hand, Gilneas, although it lags behind Kul Tiras in terms of finances, is not much worse. Unfortunately, His Majesty Jean cannot freely control the wealth in his hands like Daelin.

   After all, Gilneas is a land country, and it is adjacent to Lordaeron, the first power in the northern border. Maintaining the strength of the army is far more important than the nascent naval plan.

   But now is not the time to say that.

Lord    Darius glanced at the projection of the battlefield, just in time to see that in the fleet trapped on the edge of the battlefield by the second wave of the great tide, another battleship was hit by several bombs of the goblin bomber and caught fire.

  The rising flames made Darius annoyed, he gritted his teeth and said to Daelin:

   "Your Excellency Admiral, do you have a way to break the situation in this situation?"

"Have!"

   Dai Lin glanced at the northern lord, he twisted the seal of the Proudmoore family on his finger, and said softly meaningfully:

   "But all measures must be carried out in accordance with the tactics of the Tide Sages, without their help, your fleet will not be able to fight against the strange tide.

  The current situation is very unfair to you, the pirates can easily defeat you with the power of the sea.

  If you want to win, you must first pull the war back into a fair contest. "

After   , Dai Lin thought about it and added:

   "Of course it doesn't have to be a tide sage.

  If your mysterious spellcaster power is capable of fighting the sea, now is really the time for you to use that power. "

  The Lord of the North shook his head.

   He knew that the Greymane royal family secretly recruited forest witches.

   But he also learned from the group of witches who are difficult to be reassured. Their summoning magic can summon powerful alien creatures and bring destruction to the enemies of Gilneas.

  Manipulating the sea, this is not the field that outsiders are good at.

   Moreover, although Lord Darius is a warrior, he is not reckless and wise, the meaning of what Dalene said just now is obvious.

   He glanced oddly at the serious-looking Admiral.

   may be an illusion.

   But the lord could feel that Dai Lin seemed to have an extraordinary "interest" in the current naval battle, and even offered to take over the command of the remaining fleet of Gilneas.

   This is not his usual character.

   He said before that he was here to pick up the unruly illegitimate daughter home, but now it seems that Dai Lin's purpose in coming to this sea area is not as simple as he claimed.

   But there was not much time left for the northern lord to hesitate. On the magic mirror in front of him, the loyal and brave sailors of Gilneas were being slaughtered by evil pirates.

   Every minute a goblin bomber flew over the fleet and dropped the **** bombs, though most of them fell into the water because they were difficult to locate and exploded, setting off a huge water column.

   But there will always be some more "lucky" things roaring on the deck of the battleship, and then a huge flame rises in the rapids. He couldn't hear the sound of the explosion, but just the scene reflected on the magic mirror in front of him was enough to make the northern lord clench his fists.

   On land, he can roar to avenge the dead, a mere pirate, nothing to be afraid of!

   But the sea.

  The sea is not a battlefield big enough for him to ride.

   "With the power granted to me by His Majesty Jean Greymane, I temporarily hand over command of the fleet!"

  The northern lord took off the command sword with a strong Gilneas style that symbolized the commander of the fleet from his waist, and handed it to Daelin with both hands under the watchful eyes of the combat staff.

   he proclaimed aloud:

   "From now on, Her Majesty Daelin Proudmoore will take over my command, and the Gilnean fleet must obey all orders of Her Majesty Daelin!

   Even if he asks you to die, you must face death bravely and calmly with the courage that Gilneas soldiers should have! "

   "Don't say such bad words, Darius. How could I have sent the brave Gilnean soldiers to death?"

   Dai Lin took the command sword and put it on her waist, and took her favorite sailor's triangle hat from Cyrus, the great knight behind her, and put it on her head.

   In the next moment, he looked back at the combat staff, waved his hand, and shouted sharply:

   "Give an order to the warships on the front line, asking them to move closer to our ship! The first to tenth battleships in the battle sequence immediately turned and entered the shelling position.

   All gun windows open and the guns are in place! Wait for my order.

  Sales is going to take over the armed sailors of this ship, and prepare for the battle!

Lord Darius Crowley, I need you to go to the frontline battleship and take over the command of the second flagship 'Greymane', no matter what you do, I want you to get the soldiers as quickly as possible Restore morale!

  Brother Pike, please go and command the artillery calibration.

   Brother Zelling, I don't want to see the evil magic of the pirates affecting my fleet!

  Finally, Ms. Windcaller, I need the power of the sea to help my frontline warships, which have suffered heavy losses, leave the battlefield as soon as possible and return to the fleet sequence. "

   A series of orders were issued, and everyone present was busy under the command of Dai Lin.

   Admiral akimbo, looking at the staff in front of him, he said;

   "What are you doing? Continue to organize the real-time military report. I want to see every change in the battlefield, even if it is just the movement of a small boat, and I will report it to me immediately.

you!

   Yes, it's you, Miss Staff.

  You are temporarily serving as my adjutant, what is your name? "

   Dai Lin looked at the female staff officer who refuted him just now, the latter was stunned for a moment, and immediately straightened her back and replied:

   "Report Admiral, my name is Jeteris! From the Kingdom of Lordaeron."

"Ah, very good."

   Dai Lin looked up and down the heroic female staff officer, he said:

   "You remind me of Major Taylor under my command. You are both young, full of courage and determination, and have your own ideas, not blindly following authority.

  You and he will both become generals in the future.

   But now, I need you and your mates to have faith!

   Don't be unhappy because of the previous defeat, the war has just begun, and it is far from over.

   Just a mere pirate”

Admiral    looked at the magic mirror in front of him. He stared at the ghost ship that was approaching the pirate fleet. He looked at the pirate flag flying on the ship. A flame flashed in Dai Lin's eyes.

He says:

   "The unruly pirate brat should be taught a lesson!"

   (end of this chapter)